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It's a crime not to honour our thriller writers

06.11.09

Why does discrimination against crime writing still exist?... more

'Piffle' Tower may rise at Olympic park

26.10.09

Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has given her backing to plans for an 'Angel of the South'-style structure on the 2012 Olympic park in Stratford... more

London's artists: the West way

16.10.09

London's artists run in packs: in West London studios range from a disused gas works to an artists' commune and a charity-run studio complex... more

Montezuma's revenge from Anish Kapoor

01.10.09

Bodily fluids are a common theme of the British Museum’s Aztec artefacts and Anish Kapoor’s misfiring japes at the Royal Academy.... more

Is Anish Kapoor’s exhibition suitable for a first date?

29.09.09

They are candid, provocative - and totally at odds with each other. Our resident 'sexperts' offer conflicting advice on Londoners' sexual dilemmas... ... more

The sculpture that shapes itself

22.09.09

The largest work ever exhibited at the Royal Academy is unveiled today... more

Is Miuccia Prada the next Peggy Guggenheim?

14.08.09

Not content with a multimillion-pound luxury empire and the adulation of the fashion cognoscenti, Miuccia Prada has reinvented herself as an art patron... more

Fashion's love affair with dance

28.07.09

At Sadler's Wells the outifts worn by the arty audience exude the essence of the modern dance they're coming to see: sexy, quirky and bold - whether it's an eBay bargain or all Vivienne Westwood... more

Flat filled with copper sulphate on the Turner Prize shortlist

28.04.09

An artist who transformed a derelict London flat into a shimmering blue cave is among the shortlisted nominees for this year's Turner Prize... more

Rice pips Lloyd Webber with Academy loan

27.11.08

Sir Tim Rice is lending four works from his private art collection to an exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse... more

Yours for Ł40 ... and it could be a Tracey Emin

05.11.08

YOKO Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists... more

Freud's portrait of Bacon only makes low estimate of Ł5.4m

20.10.08

The last surviving portrait of Francis Bacon by his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has failed to reach its upper estimate at auction... more

ICA scraps admission charge to have a happy 60th birthday

01.09.08

Admission charges at one of London's best-known modern art galleries have been scrapped... more

Gormley joins Monet for a record art sale season

17.06.08

More than £200 million worth of art, including a large model of Antony Gormley's Angel Of The North, goes on view at Sotheby's in London... more

Mayor changes his mind over plinth

03.06.08

Boris Johnson admitted he had known nothing of the history of the vacant fourth plinth when he backed a memorial to war hero Sir Keith Park in Trafalgar Square... more

Arts director quits British Council post

22.04.08

The woman whose shake-up of the British Council's arts departments led to a rebellion by leading artists is to quit... more

Chapters and verse

16.04.08

There isn’t an overriding theme but the curators at the Blood on Paper exhibition have selected works which demonstrate great craftsmanship, so very V&A.... more

The plinth parade

08.01.08

A replica of HMS Victory, a family of meerkats and members of the public are in the running to stand on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.... more

Artists fight to be next on fourth plinth

28.11.07

Tracey Emin is on a shortlist of artists who want to produce the next sculpture for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.... more

Artist takes a crack at Tate Modern

08.10.07

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has sent what looks like a bolt of lightning more than 500 feet across the floor of the Turbine Hall.... more

Turner Prize greatest hits

01.10.07

Nearly all the key works by past Turner Prize winners have been brought together for a retrospective show at Tate Britain. ... more

Whose art is it anyway?

08.06.07

Tracey Emin may be representing Britain at the Venice Biennale, the Olympics of contemporary art, but why are Sam Taylor-Wood and Mark Titchner batting for Ukraine?... more

Strokes of genius for Turner appeal

22.01.07

Leading British artists have joined the Tate to launch a public appeal to save one of Turner's greatest watercolours for the nation.... more

Record Ł127m for modern art

16.11.06

Art continued to break records with a Christie's sale of Andy Warhol paintings in New York making Ł127 million.... more

Bacon's addict painting sets Ł7.9m record

15.11.06

A shocking Francis Bacon painting depicting a female nude apparently in a drugged stupor has sold for Ł7.9million, an auction world record for a work by the British artist.... more

Stripped to the bone

08.09.06

Damian Hirst's latest work, a sculpture which shows a man holding his own skin over his arm while holding a scalpel and a pair of scissors, has gone on display.... more

Rock and an art place

31.08.06

Never mind punk rock, get ready for Tate rock. Tate Modern has joined forces with names from the music industry who have written and recorded songs inspired by their favourite works of art.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Exhibitions

24.08.06

A host of big-name artists show some highly unrepresentative pieces at ICA and a choice selection of Constable landscapes at Tate Britain. Hephzibah Anderson looks at five great exhibitions.... more

Lively for 60

14.08.06

The Gimpel Fils gallery may have had its heyday in the 1950s but that doesn't stop this gathering of artists old and new feeling and looking as fresh as anything that might tickle your fancy in the more prestigious galleries of East London.... more

Lively for 60

01.08.06

The Gimpel Fils gallery had its heyday in the 1950s but that doesn't stop this gathering of artists feeling and looking as fresh as anything that might tickle your fancy in the more prestigious East London galleries.... more